Durban, South Africa -- For the students of Zanele Nsindane, an educator and head of the art department at Phakathi Secondary School in the township of Klaarwater, art offers an escape.
Some students...
Durban, South Africa -- Buyiseile Mthethwa can’t sleep if it’s raining.
Instead, she lies awake, paralyzed by fear and grief and memories of the night she lost her 14-year-old son.
“I can still...
Durban, South Africa — Tucked away on the second floor of a four-story shopping center in the Windermere suburb of Durban is a two-room office space lined with shoes.
This is the heart and sole of...
Lenasia South, South Africa – Seventy-year-old Ruth Mckina sat quietly along with about a dozen other patients in a post-op room in the Lenasia South Community Health Centre, about 25 miles south of...
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Gail Millard, owner of the Bounty Hunters Charity Shop, didn’t remember the customer’s name, but she remembered the woman’s story.
As the customer was dropping off...
The Bochabela String Project, which introduces children from marginalized communities in South Africa to string instruments, is based at the musical training school, Musicon, in the city of Bloemfontein,...
Kwa-Thema, South Africa -- Lebo Tshoma, a 24-year-old woman living in Kwa-Thema, a township east of Johannesburg, runs a printing business out of her one-room metal shack that she shares with her 3-year-old...
